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Reading!
#14279805 - 04/12/11 07:33 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm going to start reading books!
It sucks though, cause I don't really have a genre that I like.
I've only read like 4 books my whole life all the way through, and I was in Jr. High/Freshmen.
I really liked the Giver though, if I could find more books like that one it would be pretty bomb. But I have to broaden my horizons on books, since that book is made for like 15 year olds. 
The only book I own right now is Stephen King - Duma Key
Maybe I'll read that and see how I like it.
Hopefully my voices don't get in the way, usually when my mind is calm I hear a lot of voices. It's going to really piss me off if I find a book I like and I can't get through it.
wish me luck!
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
#14279821 - 04/12/11 07:35 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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yea i used to be like "fuk readin"
now im like "fuk ya book!!"

books are feelsgoodman
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
#14279829 - 04/12/11 07:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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google some of these books
are you experienced by William Sutcliffe
The THOUGHT GANG by Tibor Fischer
Throwim Way Leg By TIM FLANNERY
Voyage to the End of the Room: A Novel by Tibor Fischer
The Collector Collector: by Tibor Fischer
Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
The Dogs of Winter by Kem Nunn
Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn
Caught Inside by Daniel Duane
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Lush Life: A Novel by Richard Price
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greate... by Mark Bowden
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Ma... by Chuck Klosterman
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
The Western Limit of the World: by David Masiel
2182 kHz by David Masiel
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Out Stealing Horses: by Per Petterson
Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catfish and Mandala
The Sacred Willow
The Girl in the Picture
marching powder
4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
Vietnam in the Absence of War
Laos
The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
Mai Pen Rai
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Fruit Palace: An Odyssey Through Colombia's Cocaine Underworld by Charles Nicholl
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China Paul Theroux
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Gringo Trail by Mark Mann
Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade by Robert Sabbag
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester-
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship... by Tim O'Brien
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack C... by Gary Webb
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Kindness of Strangers,The, Penniless Across America - Mike McIntyre
Necroscope: The Lost Years by Brian Lumley
Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters by Bradford Matsen
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Close Quarters: A Novel by Larry Heinemann
Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Ch... by Ben Mezrich
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
Savages by Joe Kane
Smokescreen: A True Adventure by Robert Sabbag
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Deliverance by James Dickey
Highliners: The Classic Novel about the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey
LIGHTNING ON THE SUN by ROBERT BINGHAM
Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio
Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Min... by Daniel Tammet
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Short Timers by Gustav Hasford
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-America... by Mark Bowden
Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson
Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J. Maarten Troost
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Off the Rails in Phnom Penh
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
365 Days by Ronald J. Glasser
Michowel Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age You Must Set Forth At Dawn by Wole Soyinka Ketamine: Dreams and Realities Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat
The Naked and the Dead: by Norman Mailer
Breaking Open the Head. Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios Back From the Void by Zoe 7.
On Point by Roger Hayes
A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle.
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre Richard Grant
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.)
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham Cosmos, Carl Sagan A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Little, Big by John Crowley
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
Zany and great The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The First Third by Neal Cassady Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters
Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady
Cages by Dave McKean The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium. Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow
El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges "I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell) Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate.
Panegyric by Guy Debord The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here! Hammond Guthrie: The I-Ching (original translation) The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
The Outsider by Albert Camus
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
DMT the spirit molecule - Strassman
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
in search of the pink headed duck
pacos story
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Infected: A Novel by Scott Sigler
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
the deerslayer
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Eternity Road by Jack Mcdevitt
the turner diaries
in trouble again
lunar park
swan song
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
Rule of the Bone
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons
The Psychedelic Prayers
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow
The Gambler / Bobok / A Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japa... by Haruki Murakami
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Death On The Installment Plan by Celine
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
On Writing by Stephen King
The Drunken Tourist by Hadrian Santana
THE TECHNO PAGAN OCTOPUS MESSIAH''By Ian Winn
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas by Spike Walker
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes L... by Dan Millman
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Beach by Alex Garland
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
#14279832 - 04/12/11 07:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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this thread is lol.
i recommend reading "Botany of Desire" and/or "The Bell Curve". two books that really put some shit into perspective for me.
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I believe you are schizophrenic, are you still tripping or interested in it?
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
#14279840 - 04/12/11 07:38 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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The Giver was a great book, the ending traumatized me though 
I mostly read nonfiction these days... learning
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I AM SWIM said: yea i used to be like "fuk readin"
now im like "fuk ya book!!"

books are feelsgoodman
reads good man
reads good man fo sho 
i like readin books
specially sci-fi
it 
I recommend hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy--it's :feelsfunnyman:
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get cdisplay and check out some comics. i read a lot of books for school, play, whatever, but i always have a series i'm following too. comics are the shit. lotta literary talent in that world.
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.
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Tchan909 said: You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.
The christian bible 
I had to study it as a kid and I thought it was so shitty
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Re: Reading! [Re: 5150]
#14279875 - 04/12/11 07:42 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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5150 said: google some of these books
are you experienced by William Sutcliffe
The THOUGHT GANG by Tibor Fischer
Throwim Way Leg By TIM FLANNERY
Voyage to the End of the Room: A Novel by Tibor Fischer
The Collector Collector: by Tibor Fischer
Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
The Dogs of Winter by Kem Nunn
Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn
Caught Inside by Daniel Duane
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Lush Life: A Novel by Richard Price
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greate... by Mark Bowden
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Ma... by Chuck Klosterman
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
The Western Limit of the World: by David Masiel
2182 kHz by David Masiel
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Out Stealing Horses: by Per Petterson
Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catfish and Mandala
The Sacred Willow
The Girl in the Picture
marching powder
4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
Vietnam in the Absence of War
Laos
The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
Mai Pen Rai
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Fruit Palace: An Odyssey Through Colombia's Cocaine Underworld by Charles Nicholl
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China Paul Theroux
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Gringo Trail by Mark Mann
Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade by Robert Sabbag
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester-
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship... by Tim O'Brien
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack C... by Gary Webb
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Kindness of Strangers,The, Penniless Across America - Mike McIntyre
Necroscope: The Lost Years by Brian Lumley
Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters by Bradford Matsen
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Close Quarters: A Novel by Larry Heinemann
Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Ch... by Ben Mezrich
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
Savages by Joe Kane
Smokescreen: A True Adventure by Robert Sabbag
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Deliverance by James Dickey
Highliners: The Classic Novel about the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey
LIGHTNING ON THE SUN by ROBERT BINGHAM
Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio
Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Min... by Daniel Tammet
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Short Timers by Gustav Hasford
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-America... by Mark Bowden
Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson
Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J. Maarten Troost
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Off the Rails in Phnom Penh
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
365 Days by Ronald J. Glasser
Michowel Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age You Must Set Forth At Dawn by Wole Soyinka Ketamine: Dreams and Realities Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat
The Naked and the Dead: by Norman Mailer
Breaking Open the Head. Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios Back From the Void by Zoe 7.
On Point by Roger Hayes
A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle.
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre Richard Grant
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.)
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham Cosmos, Carl Sagan A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Little, Big by John Crowley
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
Zany and great The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The First Third by Neal Cassady Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters
Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady
Cages by Dave McKean The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium. Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow
El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges "I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell) Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate.
Panegyric by Guy Debord The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here! Hammond Guthrie: The I-Ching (original translation) The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
The Outsider by Albert Camus
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
DMT the spirit molecule - Strassman
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
in search of the pink headed duck
pacos story
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Infected: A Novel by Scott Sigler
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
the deerslayer
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Eternity Road by Jack Mcdevitt
the turner diaries
in trouble again
lunar park
swan song
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
Rule of the Bone
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons
The Psychedelic Prayers
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow
The Gambler / Bobok / A Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japa... by Haruki Murakami
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Death On The Installment Plan by Celine
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
On Writing by Stephen King
The Drunken Tourist by Hadrian Santana
THE TECHNO PAGAN OCTOPUS MESSIAH''By Ian Winn
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas by Spike Walker
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes L... by Dan Millman
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Beach by Alex Garland
good list man
i saw this long list and wuz like u better have some hermann hesse in der. and u do. reads good man 
+ Tom Robbins is supposed to be doin' thangs
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Tchan909 said: You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.
The christian bible 
I had to study it as a kid and I thought it was so shitty
I like it - it's a major challenge, it's a great research hobby, and it gives a lot of insight into how our culture has evolved.
I'm kind of a nerd, though.
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Tchan909 said: You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.
I've read the New Testament and the Urantia Book both in their entirety for fun. The Urantia Book is better imo.
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the koran is better.
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I AM SWIM said: yea i used to be like "fuk readin"
now im like "fuk ya book!!"

books are feelsgoodman
reads good man
reads good man fo sho 
i like readin books
specially sci-fi
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I recommend hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy--it's :feelsfunnyman:
yeah sci-fi can be soooo difficult to read tho
especially thangs like DUNE
i still need to read ray bradbury's thangs tho
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Re: Reading! [Re: millzy]
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millzy said: btw, here's a really cool comic series. i might have to read this for the third time.

opolis look chill.
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Tchan909 said: You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.
the koran is better.

I actually just picked up a Quran the other day, but I haven't read very far past the introduction...
It seems like it's both easier and harder to follow than the Bible, since it's all poetry, but also poetry from another language.
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Dune is the single best science-fiction novel ever. No contest.
The sequels are highly optional, though.
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Tchan909 said: You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.
I've read the New Testament and the Urantia Book both in their entirety for fun. The Urantia Book is better imo.
Hmm, never heard of the Urantia Book but it actually looks pretty interesting...
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if you start out reading sci fi, read this.

classic. beautiful prose, fast paced. from the first page you can just see what's happening in your mind. this was the book that started my "adult" sci fi career at age 11 (grew up reading golden age stuff like asimove, clark, heinlein etc). it still blows me away and i cannot count how many times i've read it since i was a boy.
to me dune is a bit dense. not dogging herbert at all, but i never got enjoyment out of his style. i equate him to tolkein. really cool conceptually, but just too much material to keep me interested.
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Looks pretty mindblowing. I'll have to pick up a copy, take some LSD, and get crackin'.
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Tchan909 said: Dune is the single best science-fiction novel ever. No contest.
The sequels are highly optional, though.
I find this book so incredibly hard to get into. That and I can't see it being better than "Hyperion".
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these are good starters too.


i currently have pkd's 'the three stigmata of palmer eldritch' and 'now wait for last year' on my shelves for the summer.
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Re: Reading! [Re: millzy]
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Great and strange book
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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I strongly recommend "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo.
It's one of the all time great books, written with just an amazing ammount of detail and character developement. The story is the characters, and thats it, it really puts you in the mind of the character and carries you along through the journey with the characters as things occur and effect them and whatnot. It's a style of writing that doesn't really happen anymore. Now-a-days you have books like the da vinci code that are all about the scene at hand or the situation.
My dad showed me the book and told me about it, and at first i was thinking yeah....that sounds like some lame ass old piece of literature, and i just started reading it more to please him then for actually wanting to read it myself, but after reading it i was actually enthralled with it. I couldn't put the book down, and thats a big thing for me, because i'm a person who never wants to read anything much unless i'm forced to.
also " Crime and Punishment " by dostoyevski.
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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I wasn't sure if I had read The Giver or not so I looked it up, turns out it was the book I read in middle school. The wiki page also points out that The Giver forms a loose trilogy with Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004), two other books set in the same future era.
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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READING..! i have been doing this a lot in my freetime, when im not nauseous & the room isnt spinning..
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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I have pretty much grown up with the Wheel of Time novel series, by Robert Jordan. I'm about to finish book twelve.
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i'm reading a little bit of dostoevski for one of my classes (brothers k). i like him alright. i'm going to try to tackle 'notes from the underground' at some point. it's another one sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.
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Re: Reading! [Re: millzy]
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A friend of mine has read Duma Key, says it's one of her favorite's from King.
I'm reading Lisey's Story by King, but i think it's more of a book a girl could get into easier than a guy. I heard Tommyknockers is a good one by King too.
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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Books are awesome.
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Tchan - Dune is good, but the best I'd say belongs to Neal Stephenson's "Anathem".
Millzy - If you like William Gibson, see the above. Also, "Snow Crash" by Stephenson. I effing love Neuromancer, but Stephenson pretty much invented the whole concept of cyberspace (I could be wrong) in Snow Crash. Also, it's got a 15-year-old with a booby-trapped vagina, and people getting infected by a digital virus.
But Anathem, guys. Anathem. Get through the first, oh, three or four chapters, and once you're moving along through the book at a good clip, it will blow your mind. Seriously blow it right the fuck out of your head.
Bruce Sterling is also good, I like his short story collection "A Good Old Fashioned Future".
BY THE WAY. If you guys haven't read the Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin, you're COMPLETELY dropping the ball. Start with "A Game of Thrones" and if you aren't hooked by the end of the second or third chapter, watch the TV show. Seriously the best fantasy I've EVER read.
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i've read and listened to the audio book of 'snow crash' actually. not as impressive as any of the sprawl books, but good. i got more out of the audio book tbh. it would make an awesome movie imo.
i thought 'the tommyknockers' was a bit long. i've read almost everything by king, and here are my rec's:
the shining eyes of the dragon the dark tower hearts in atlantis (short stories) different seasons (short stories) everything's eventual (short stories) bag of bones
in that order.
i cannot recommend 'the shining' enough. i had seen the movie probably a hundred times when i read it and it's the only novel that has ever scared me, like to the point to where i lost sleep. i was 21 when i read it btw. lol. and the tower series is king's opus.
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Re: Reading! [Re: millzy]
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If ur after a good sci-fi anything by Raymond Fiest is very entertaining. Isaac Asimov is also very good.
I'd reccomend "my family and other animals" by Gerald Durrell. If your not into animals you probably wont like it. Its a very good book.
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So I picked up this book at wal mart that sounded appealing called "a Dark matter" by Peter Straub, it was a New York Times best seller, and like I said, it sounded appealing, but so far it's confusing as fuck, and makes NO sense.
He jumps all over the place, and he gives all his charactors real names AND nicknames. So it's hard as hell to follow who is who.
ugh. I hope it gets better. I paid for it, I'm gonna read it!!
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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i got bored quick with straub's 'black house', which he wrote with stephen king. /shrug
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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
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Hah, yeah be careful what you buy, I got some books from a bargain bin that all had good reviews, but turned out to be the second or third book in a trilogy. Didn't say that on the fucking cover though, you have to go about 5 pages in and its in little type saying book 2 or book 3.
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